President Barack Obama responded to an attack in Nice, France that left at least 84 dead on Thursday with a call for unity and diplomacy.
“We pledge to stand with our French friends as we defend our nations against this scourge of terrorism and violence. And this is a threat to all of us,” he said after hosting the Diplomatic Corps reception. “We don’t know all the details, but what we know is the capacity of even a single individual to do extraordinary harm to our people, to our way of life, a lot of nations represented here today have been impacted this year and in previous years.”
Obama called for global solidarity, emphasizing a constructive response to fears of radicalization.
“We’re going to win this fight by building. By never giving up on diplomacy and to end the Syrian civil war. By working with partners around the world, including Muslim communities to push back against hateful ideologies that twist Islam,” he said. “We will defeat these ideologies by offering a better vision of development and economic progress. So people, especially young people, have more hope and opportunity and are less susceptible to extremism and violence in the first place.”
The President went on to say that “it’s been a difficult several weeks here in the United States” and thanked the representatives of the Diplomatic Corps for their partnership. He went on to list instances of international cooperation, describing them as “a powerful reminder of the hope that we can advance when, as nations and as peoples and as individuals, we refuse to be defined by our differences alone and we remember that we are all part of one human race.”
“Even on difficult days like this,” he said, “that’s what gives me hope, and that’s what should give us all hope.”
Blah blah blah. Stop attacking every country in the NE and ME for a change,stop trying to start nuclear wars with Russia, stop overthrowing democratic governments like the Ukraine, on and on, and maybe those you are destroying will not want to destroy you back? Karma? Got it, hypocritical lying coward? Get it. Good luck with that. With Obama and the entire Fascist Terrorist Regime of America having absolutely no conscience, We The People of this beautiful planet are in deep trouble. Obama, dubya and dick and Rumsfeld, Kerry, Condoleeza, have created the entire terrorist scenario and now it’s going to be payback time, big time. No surprise to me. That’s how it works, and how he wants it to work to further enrich his War Machine. Big money in creating terrorism worldwide you know: arm both sides and watch the fireworks while we can hide over here in the Western Hemisphere gloating and watching the planet dissolve before our very eyes. Coming home soon, by degrees, and already underway.
The length, breadth and depth of your commentary.
Got it hypocritical lying coward? There I fixed (some of) your punctuation. To ‘comment’ with a lie and try to blame the President with the conservative ‘terrorist regime of America’ is disingenuous at best and clueless and cowardly at worst.
If you really wanted to end the war with Syria, simply eliminate the head of state, and then if hostilities don’t cease, eliminate it’s offensive capabilities. That should take the US, the UK, and France about a week.
Then move on to ISIL. We need to end the hostilities with military action, not continue to waste time on diplomacy, which is proving itself to be useless.
Send Kerry home for the summer, and bring in the military.
Oooh, the troll is back with another hit and run comment! What a classic coward, so desperate for attention and completely ignorant of facts. It’s one thing to be so ignorant but you actually flaunt it. Actually, it is quite Palin-esque of you.